Summary
No Man’s Skyhas acquired an overall rating of “Very Positive” on Steam, effectively leaving behind the game’s disappointing 2016 launch. The good news forNo Man’s Skystudio Hello Games comes after years of improving the game via post-launch updates.
WhenNo Man’s Skywas first revealed in 2013, it quickly caught the fancy of gamers with its procedurally generated open world and became one of the most anticipated indie titles. However, when the space exploration game finally launched three years later, it received disappointing reviews and lost most of its initially huge playerbase in a short period. Then came one of themost notable comebacks in the history of video games, in which Hello Games won back the favor of players by gradually improvingNo Man’s Skywith numerous patches and content drops through years. Most recently, the action-adventure title unlocked another indicator of its late but resounding success.
On Twitter, Hello Games Founder Sean Murray announced thatNo Man’s Skyhad finally reached the “Very Positive” rating on Steam, more than eight years after launch. He thanked the fans for the achievement and said, “You have no idea what this means to us.” According toSteamDB, the game’simpressive Steam ratingis based on 326,122 user reviews, out of which 81.18% are positive, at the time of writing. In the comments under Murray’s tweet, manyNo Man’s Skyfans commended the resilience of the developer, with one user calling the game’s turnaround “the greatest redemption arc of all time.”
No Man’s Sky Continues Receiving Positive Reviews and Promising Engagement
Over the course of the past several years,No Man’s Skyhas not only attracted positive feedback but also experienced growth in engagement time and again. Although these recent bumps in player footfall have been nowhere near its highest concurrent player count of 212K that was achieved at the time of launch, they have shown that Hello Games has been able to roll out engaging content regularly since coming out. Its last such peak came on July 22, with 54,951 players concurrently playing the game, days after the Worlds Part 1 Update was dropped. The studio’s commitment to listening to its community even landed it among thenominees in the Best Community Support category at The Game Awards 2024.
Recently,No Man’s Skyplayers got access to new Expeditions, bringing fresh challenges and rewards to the spacefaring game. The current lineup of Expeditions is set to last until the end of the Aquarius Expedition on August 02, 2025. Apart from these updates, Hello Games’sLight No Fireis also in the works, which will be another massive open world game.
No Man’s Sky
WHERE TO PLAY
Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe. Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery. No Man’s Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe’s mysterious existence. How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets. The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
